First of all, I would point to the fact that environmental assessment is really an important early planning tool, and it in no way can duplicate details to follow. So I think you've got to focus on a timely decision about whether or not a project should proceed, given strategic information and the possibility of significant effects and appropriate conditions that guide the later details. So that's one important point. It has to be timely, and you need to be able to get to those public interest determinations in a way that does not rush through significance but is effective.
Secondly, in our view, that should be combined with other public interest considerations, not at all to usurp environment, but to be able to make sure that you're fully addressing environment within the context of how you would do your construction--the details of your plans. That is part of the early planning that we believe is already well within the mandate of the National Energy Board, and has been represented in their section 52 for years. In fact, they have a broader, deeper, and bigger scope for environmental work than the actual current CEAA does.
Those are two key points. Move the CEAA accountability into the NEB, make sure that it's strategic, and make sure there's good follow-up after a public interest determination has been made.